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“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.” - Albert Einstein
I have to remind of that each time I wake up and my toaster is fighting with the cat.
He mentions evolution, he sings part of the song like a monkey, he mentions Darwin and he uses big words. What else is there?
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From a recent Exploratorium e-newsletter:
DID YOU KNOW?
…that your brain is three-fourths water? A normal human brain is about 75% water, approximately the percentage you’d find in an average banana.
It would appear that many of our monkeys are vacationing in Central America — at least according to WWF’s really cool mapping feature.
We think this video was produced by visiting space aliens. Warning: some strong language and subject matter.
According to the folks over at Guinness World Records a monkey earns the top honor of being the noisiest land animal.
The aptly named Howler Monkey’s call supposedly sounds like a mixture of a donkey’s bray and a dog’s bark and can be heard from up to 3 miles away. So the next time you’re woken […]
Sad Monkeys may Help Scientists Understand Sad Humans
0 Comments Published April 26th, 2003 in Monkey News, Science.A recent article from Newhouse News Service reports that a scientist named Judy Cameron is hoping to enlist the help of rhesus monkeys in order to investigate the relationship between anxiety and depression, and their genetic causes. Some forms of anxiety run, in similar ways, in both monkey and human families.
Of course, monkeys have drawbacks […]
When I was 16, I woke up to the horrible news that the Space Shuttle Challenger had exploded on lift off. For a moment my dreams were shattered. I was in love with the idea of space travel and I felt an immense closeness with the space program and was awed at the […]
